VOLUME xxvn
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE. FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1926
NUMBER 131
Seniors Vote
To Award Cup
To Paul Ager
Earl Chiles to Guide Next
Senior Class; Mary Barr
To Wield Razor
Riggs to Pilot Juniors;
M. Barnes, Secretary
Freshmen Elect Foster as
Chief for 1926-27
£*LOSE filial results featured in
several of the class elections
yesterday afternoon, a number be
ing elected by a one vote margin. The
senior class selected Paul Ager as
■winner of the Albert cup award
which is given each year for char
acter, service and wholesome influ
ence. Anna DeWitt was unopposed
in her race for permanent secretary
of the graduating class.
Earl Chiles defeated Ward Cook
for senior class president, 57 to 54.
Betty Beans for vice-president, and
Phil Bergh treasurer, ran without
opposition. Katherine Graef was
elected secretary. Bob Neighbors
won the office of sergeant-at-arms,
Pete Brooks and Doc Wrightman
being defeated by less than ten
votes. The razor-wielder of the
senior class will be May Agile Barr,
who was elected class barber by
one count more than Anne Kunes
received.
Few of the offices for the junior
class were closely contested. Frank
Biggs was elected president by 47
votes majority. Katherine Mutzig
defeated Elizabeth Talbot for the
vice-presidency. Marian Barnes for
secretary of the class was unop
posed. The race for treasurer was
won by Edward Crowley. Bobert
AVarner will officiate as sergeant-at
arms for the coming year.
Bob Foster was elected president
of the sophomore class, and Helen
Shanks vice-president. By a one
vote margin, Bose Boberts will act
as secretary of the class. Bill Hynd
was unopposed for treasurer and
Jack Jones elected sergeant-at-arms.
Interest in class elections was
slight, according to the opinion of
the polls committees, a small pro
portion of each class^ voting. The
largest total number of votes east
for sophomore offices was 360; 172
for the junior class, and 112 for
the seniors.
Frosh Trackslers
Have Final Workout
For Relay Carnival
Freshmen who will run in the
relay carnival Saturday against the
Aggie rooks at Corvallis had their
last hard workout before the meet
yesterday. This meet will furnish
the only opportunity to gauge the
strength of the Rooks before the
dual meet the latter part of the
month.
This is the first intercollegiate
competition for the Frosh track
squad, the Babes are out to do their
stuff. The yearlings have been
looking forward to this meet all sea
son and have been training hard for
it. The Rooks, however, are re
ported to have one of the strongest
teams that has ever been turned out
of O. A. C. They are especially fav
ored with a flock of quarter milers
who have given the varsity many
a close race, but the rest of their
distance men have not yet shown
what they can do under fire.
The events for the afternoon in
clude a 440 yard relay, half mile,
mile, 2 mile and medley relays.
The relay carnival will be one
of the feature events of the O. A.
C. Junior Week-end.
Parents to Be Shown
Oriental Art Exhibit
The Murray Warner collection of
Oriental art, which is famous
throughout the state, will be open
this week-end for the benefit of
the mothers and fathers who are
to be entertained on the campus.
Mrs. Perkin", who has recently re
turned from the Orient, will be in
charge of the museum, which is on
the third floor of the Woman’s
building, and will be helpful to
those wishing to know about the
different things in the collection.
Saturday St will be open from 9 to
5 and Sunday from 2 to 6 p. m
Committee Advises Honor
Group Receive Privileges
Freedom from Grades and Class Attendance Suggested for Students
‘Capable of Carrying on Independent Scholastic Work; Present
“Honors” System Said to Be Worthless; Alternative Given
(Editor’s "Note: Following is the
fourth article in a series of five
student committee reports on the
scholastic situation within the Uni
versity at the present time. The
final article will appear tomororw).
fJTHE committee recominends very
strongly that definite academic
privileges be made available to stu
dents of the upper three classes who
have proven themselves capable of
assuming the responsibilities of in
dependent work.
These academic privileges would
be provided through the means of
a system of honor students, which
would be a radical departure from
the system of “honors” now in
vogue at the University.
The present system of so-called
“honors” in individual subjects em
ployed by the University, is, in the
opinion of the committee a negli
gible factor in the functioning of
the educational process and does
not tend to promote any wide-spread
interest in scholarship. The system
proposed would grant certain well
defined privileges to all who have
demonstrated their ability to as
sume this responsibility of pursuing
their own education.
An honor student, under the new
definition, is a student pursuing
successfully his education on his
own initiative with the counsel of
his instructors; he is a student who
has outgrown the ^confines of a
narrow, formalistic course of study.
We have previously emphasized
the importance of seeing all knowl
edge as a unified whole. The man
who is working out a problem him
self will often discover a need for
knowledge in other fields that he
may achieve results of value. A
student working in literature will
immediately find necessary, for in
stance, an acquaintance with his
tory; a student in psychology will
soon find himself on the border of
physics, chemistry and physiology.
The student looks upon his inde
pendent work as high adventure
and becomes fascinated when once
imm'ersed in the subject.
Privileges Deserved by
Worthy Students
The University student, during
his first year in the freshman col
lege has undergone the strict dis
cipline of pedagogic compulsions,
and presumably, has secured a sat
isfactory background for genuine
University work. As shown in a
previous article he should have ac
quired the tools and the University
attitude towards his work.
But we must look forward as well
as backward. The student will soon
face the necessity of going into his
life work where he will be con
fronted by all manner of privileges.
We advocate the granting of re
sponsibilities so the student may, if
he wishes, try his wings. We do
not believe that all students are
anxious or able to assume any more
responsibilities than accorded at
present, and we are not, therefore,
advocating that the proposed priv
ileges be made available to all stu
dents. We believe, however, that
many students are being retarded
under the present system, and we
propose to give these more ambi
tious students the opportunity to de
velop themselves to the extent of
their abilities.
In a utopian University all stu
dents would be honor students; but
unfortunately we must deal with
conditions as we find them, and j
we are convinced that at present
the majority of students are not j
prepared to take advantage of the .
opportunities we propose to offer. |
We believe the student should be
given the opportunity to carry on
independent investigation in the
various field of knowledge. In
classes as constituted today the
dull students set the pace, the more
able students being held back by
the slower pregress of their less apt
classmates. Our system, we believe,1
will make it possible for ambitious
students to set their own pace.
Hpnor and Grade
Groups Provided
The committee proposes to divide
the students of the three upper
classes into two divisions: an honor
group and a grade group. The honor
group will include all students who
have, as stated above, displayed a
distinct ability to carry on inde
pendent work:
The grade group will include all
students taking University work as
carried on at the present time. In
sheer numbers we assume the honor
group will approximate, at the out
set, not over 15 j>er cent of the three
upper classes. The success of the
system, however,' would demand an
increase in,size of the honor group.
Honor students are those persons
who have displayed a distinct abil
ity to carry on their work on their
own initiative. At the end of the
freshman year, or whenever their
ability has been demonstrated, they
should be permitted by their de
partment heads to enjoy practically
unrestricted privileges in the pur
suance of their education. They
should not be subject to a grade
system, nor to compulsory class or
conference attendance, but allowed
to follow their studies in as natural
a manner as possible. t «
The Vemainder of the grade stu
dents who are unable through lack
of an adequate grasp on the meth
ods and habits of individual work
should be placed in the second
group which is given instruction
according to present University
methods. Here the existing grade
system should be kept in force and
compulsory attendance to lecture
and quizz sections remain a re
quirement. The system of compul
sory class attendance in the senior
year for grade students should be
modified to require attendance in
quizz sections only.
The plan as outlined by the com
mittee places an intentional prem
ium upon ability to successfully in
itiate scholastic work. One of the
purposes behind the creation of a
distinct set of privileges for stu
dents in the honors group is, to
stimulate student? in the grade di
vision to develop an ability for in
dependent study. It is expected
that a good percentage of them
will eventually be transferred to
the honor section.
Minority Believes
in No Electives
General Outline Courses
Compose New Plan for
Freshman College
(Editors Note: A report la yes
terday’s Emerald outlined a plan
for a freshman college. A few mem
bers of the committee have out
lined a course of study which they
believe would be more effective
than the program previously ad
vanced).
As stated in the report yesterday,
the freshman present a distinct
problem and must be dealt with as
such. The ideal method of hand
ling the new students entering the
University Is the junior college.
This college, which is used in a few
institutions, includes the last two
years of high school and the first
two years of college. Such an insti
tution is impossible in Oregon be
cause of lack of funds, hence, the
proposed freshman college is a sub
stitute for this more satisfactory
system.
Several members of the commit-!
tee believe that the curriculum of
the freshman college should be of
broader scope than the plan ex
plained in yesterday’s report. They
further believe that there should
be no electives for freshmen be
cause the electives are seldom chosen
by the freshman himself and they
tend to narrow the field of study.
The -curriculum proposed by this
group would be composed of gen
eral outline courses in several fields
of learning. The freshman would
be obliged to take the following
courses: natural science, giving him
the history of science, an explana
tion of the scientific method, and
an introduction to the fields of
chemistry, biology, botany and the
other natural sciences; a course in
social science, including the history
of the social sciences and a survey
of economics, sociology and the
other social sciences; a course in
general literature, providing a sur
vey of movements and trends in
literature; a course in general his
tory composed of a rapid survey
enabling the student to tie the
whole history into a continuous se
quence thus remedying the impres
sion gained by the majority of high
school students that one day the
sun sets on one historical period
and the next morning rises on an
other. The general course in his
tory would be a correlation of the
historical knowledge which the stu
dent already has and would show
him where he could find the ma
terial to fill the gaps in his knowl
edge.
Proposed Quizz Section
To Correlate Knowledge
In addition to these general
courses in scholastic subjects the
freshman should be given a confer
ence course in college problems.
This course would help him to ad
just himself to the problems of col
lege life and establish, a place for
himself in the college community.
The courses, other than the course
in college problems, would be lect
ure courses with quizz sections.
The quizz sections might be com
bined in such a way as to correlate
the knowledge of the student in all
the fields in which he is working
thus giving him an idea of the
“oneness” of learning.
In this curriculum there would be
no choice for the student. No mat
ter what course he intended to pur
sue in his later college .years he
would be obliged to take the re
quired freshman background courses.
This would show the student in
what direction his interest lies and
enable him to choose a major with
a great deal more wisdom than is
used under the present system.
The freshman college, it is be
lieved, will not only act as an in
troduction to knowledge and there
by be a benefit to the student but
will be a period of trial and will
thereby benefit the University.
The flunking rules would advance
in strictness from the first to the
last term. That is, the student
would be given two terms in which
to get his stride. However if it
were shown in the first or second
term that he was either intellect
ually incapable or temperamentally
disinclined to pursue a higher edu
cation he would be dropped. On
the other hand if the student found
that the University did him no good
he could drop out before he had
started to major.
In summary, the freshman col
lege outlined here would include
courses in natural science, social
science, general literature, general
history and a conference course in
college problems. It would act as
an introduction to the University
for the student and a trial period
for the University. It would aid
the student in the wise selection
of a major and, we believe, solve
many of the freshman problems
that now trouble both the students
and the administration.
Oregana Pictures'
To Be Sold Today
"Much interest is being shown in
the sale of Oregana pictures, to be
held this afternoon from 1 to 6 in
the Oregana office on the second
I floor of the journalism building,
says Wayne Leland, in immediate
charge of the sale.
Fraternity and sorority groups
can get panels, some of which show
forty or fifty pictures, for $4.00.
Individual pictures of the groups
are regular proof size, and would
ordinarily cost fifty cents each.
Honorary groups may purchase pan
els for from one to two dollars.
Pictures of athletes, campus build
ings, and events will go for five and
ten cents.
Money realized from the sale will
go into the Oregana fund, and the
publicity department will receive
the remaining pictures. Those
wishing pictures should come early,
i before the collection is picked over.
Sigma Beta Phi
Heads Houses
in Grade List
Lambda Psi Average First
Among All Men’s
Organizations
Phi Kappa Psi Leads
National Fraternities
Average Rating for All
Organizations 41.54
^JIGMA BETA PHI, women’s local
living organization, has the
highest grade average for winter
term, with Kappa Kappa Gamma
and Kappa Alpha Theta, national
women’s sororities placing second
and third.
The grade sheets were released
yesterday afternoon. The method
of compiling the grades was a de
parture this term from the previous
terms. The living groups, m/embers
of which' are elected were averaged
apart from the living groups whoso
members are not elected. Thaelier
Cottage leads the list of non-eleet
ed, with the Three Arts club second.
Local Fraternity Leads
Lambda Psi, men’s local, is first
in the list of men’s organizations,
and is sixteenth in the entire list.
Phi Kappa Psi, men’s national, is
second, and Sigma Pi Tan, third.
Kappa Alpha Theta and Delta
Gamma led the list of averges last
winter term among the women’s
houses and Lambda Psi and Sigma
Pi Tau led the men. Sigma Nu,
men’s national, was third among
men’s averages.
The average rating of the wom
en ’s organizations this year is 44.
940. The men’s organizations av
erage is 37.667.
Complete List Given
Following is the complete list of
ratings:
Living groups, members of which
are elected by the membership of
the organization:
Name Rating
1. Sigma Beta Phi.49.523
2. Kappa Kappa Gamma.49.089
3. Kappa Alpha Theta.48.905
4. Tau Nu .48.739
5. Alpha Chi Omega.48.302
6. Alpha Gamma Delta...48.037
7. Alpha Phi .47.581
8. Alpha Omfcron Pi.45.981
9. Delta Delta Delta.45.828
10. Oregon Club (Girls).,....45.666
11. Pi Beta Phi . 45.500
12. Alpha Delta Pi .45.031
13. Delta Gamma .44.851
14. Kappa Omicron .43.526
15. Chi Omega .43.344
16. Lambda Psi .43.300
17. Phi Kappa Psi .43.230
18. Alpha Xi Delta .42.819
19. Gammla Phi Beta .41.662
20. Delta Zeta .41.257
21. Sigma Pi Tau .41.083
22. Delta Tau Delta .40.542
23. Beta Theta Pi .40.416
24. Alpha Beta Chi .,.40.200
25. Kappa Delta Phi .40.058
26. Kappa Sigma .38.408
27. Sigma Chi .37.263
28. Alpha Tau Omega.36.743
29. Sigma Nu ..36.402
30. Theta Chi .35.923
31. Phi Delta Theta .34.521
32. Sigma Alpha Epsilon.34.302
33. Psi Kappa .33.565
34. Phi Gamma Delta .32.454
35. Chi Psi .-.30.891
Av. rating of fraternities.37.432
Av. rating of sororities.45.818
Av. rating of fraternities and
sororities .-...41.360
Living groups, members of which
are not elected by the membership
of the organization:
1. Thacher Cottage .50.111
2. Three Arts Club .49.200
3. Susan Campbell Hall.43.697
4. Hendricks Hall .41.037
5. Friendly Hall .39.329
Average rating of men’s or
ganizations .37.667
Average rating 'of women’s
organizations .44.940
Average rating of all organi
zations .41.540
No account is taken of hours not
passed, whether W’s, Inc’s, Dp’s,
Cond’s, or F’s.
Phi Delta Kappa Will
Initiate Today at 3:30
Phi Delta Kappa, men’s honor
ary education fraternity, will hold
initiation this afternoon at 3:30, in
the auditorium of the University
high school. After the initiation
a banquet will be given at College
Side Inn at 6 o’clock. The speakers
will include Dr. Kimball Young,
Prof. O. W. Richards, and Prof. P.
L. Spencer.
Tracksters Hold
Light Workout at
Roseburg Field
Train Accident in South
Causes Three Hour
Delay of Shasta
BY WEB JONES
ROSEBURG, Ore.,—Hay 12.—
(With the Oregon track team on
board the Shasta)—The University
of Oregon track team took a light
workout this afternoon on the high
school track at Roseburg. The four
teen men lopoil around the dirt
track for a half hour’s light work
out. The sprinters and hurdlers
were sent through a series of fast
starts by Hayward.
The four teams from Montana,
Washington State, O. A. C. and
Oregon gathered on the track under
the eyes of four coaches and lim
bered up after the train ride. The
Shasta was halted by a wreck in
the south so the three hour wait was
utilized by the ^various trainers.
Russell Sweet, the outstanding per
former on the four man team which
Montana is entering in the Pacific
Coast Conference meet took a heavy
workout, with several laps around
the track and a dozen snappy
sprints under the starting of “Doc”
Bohler of W. S. C. The powerful
Montanan was in fine condition ac
cording to the coach who has been
saving him for the meet tlisi week
end. He is expected to win both
sprint events in the south.
The galaxy of distance men on the
field would have made any coach’s
heart flutter. There was Johnny
Devine, national two mile champion
from Washington State; Gillette, of
Montana, a near champion in the
intercollegiate meet last year where
he placed third in the mile; then the
quartet of O. A. C. distance men,
Clayton, Butts, Bell and Sisson. A
peep at the times these men have
made gives the reasons for the flut
ters, for they are undobutodly the
strongest distance men who have
ever swarmed to the south in force,
(Continued on ■page three)
Business Staff
For Oregana to
Be Chosen Soon
New Appointment System
To Be Inaugurated by
James Manning
A new system of appointment to
the business staff of the 1927 Or
egana will be employed next year,
James Manning, business manager,
announced yesterday. The advertis
ing manager, four assistant adver
tising managers, circulation manag
er, and assistant circulation manag
er are to be named from applica
tions turned in by those desiring
positions.
Only one appointment has been
made so far for the 1927 business
staff, that of Clinton Peets as as
sociate manager. Mr. Peets was
assistant circulation manager of
the Oregana this year, one of the
assistant managers of the Univer
sity glee clubs, and oij the business
staff of the Emerald his freshman
year.
“Formerly, the managerial staff of
the Oregana included only the ad
vertising manager, circulation man
ager and assistant, all of whom
were appointed,” explained Mr. Man
ning. “The addition of four as
sistant advertising managers is
aimed to produce greater efficiency
for next year and to build up a
nucleus for future staffs. There is
too much work for one advertising
man to cover adequately, and more
thoroughness is absolutely neces
It is desired that the four as
sistants to the_ advertising manager
be sophomores next year; that is,
applications from freshmen who^
have had experience in advertising
and who are interested in working
up on the managerial staff are pre
ferred.
For the circulation jobs, the main
qualification is a wide acquaintance
ship on the campus and interest in
the work.
The applications must be turned
in to Jack Benefiel’s office by May
20, and the choices will be made
on a basis of ability from those
who apply. Everyone will be given
a chance by this method, says James
Manning, and it is hoped to build
up the staff to the highest possible
degree of efficiency next year.
Dean Dyment
Out, Gives His
Side of Case
Statement Charges Politics
And Intrigue Rampant
Resignation Refusal
Brings Indefinite Leave
Regents Refuse Hearing
Says Deposed Dean
fJpHE Board of Begents of the Uni
versity has indefinitely extend
ed the leave of absence of Colin
V. Dyment, dean of the college of
who has been away on leave during
literature, science and the arte,
the past year. He was asked to
resign and refused. The regents
then continued his leave of absence,
it became known yesterday.
Dean Dyment made the following
statement to the Emerald last night:
“The University has been at sixes
and sevens since its great Presi
dent, Prince L. Campbell, became
fatally ill in the spring of 1924, and
was unable thereafter to administer
the institution. Under President
Cumpbell’s administration of 22
years, the University was gradually
rescued from a condition of poli
tics and intrigue, and placed and
kept on a non-partisan basis. Since
his illness began, however, the in
stitution has gradually crept back
into politics and intrigue.
“When the president’s illness be
gan, I was also in California in *
hospital, and the last year have been
in Europe for study; therefore have
been absent from Eugene most of
the time since February, 1924, ■»
I was quite unaware that a fac
tion of the regents, who are them
selves divided, had turned upon me.
I came back from Italy two weeks
ago to ascertain why, and upon
reaching Buffalo, was informed that
this faction had forced a majority
vote for termination of my tenure.
“The decision was kept secret for
some reason. I understand there is
no minute of it even in the public
record. Accordingly, there is no
official statement, of the reason for
this decision, but from various
sources I have gathered the follow
ing:
“I was accused of being a Can
adian and consequently of being
likely to introduce foreign politics
into the College of Literature, Sci
ence and the Arts, of which I was
dean. (The College is by far the
largest of the various units, as it
contains 22 departments and teaches
about two-thirds of all the student
hours of the resident University.)
As I was given no hearing by the
Board, which has been conducting
star chamber sessions for nearly a
year now, I could not explain that
I havo been a voter in this state
for nearly a quarter of a century,
having come here as a young man.
“As for introducing foreign pol
icies, I have at all times carried
out only the policies of the late
president, one of the finest Amer
icans in Oregon history.
“The regential faction above
mentioned also asserted that there
was a serious difference of opinion
between myself and two or three
colleagues on certain University
policy.
“The policy in question was an
to the unity of the University. The
institution is in a period of marked
expansion, and I have contended,
that for some time yet it should re
main a unit under government by
the general faculty, instead of being
split up into a number of inde
pendent units, this latter being a
step that would seem to weaken
the University when it needs concen
trated strength. The dean of Uni
versity College, who was mvself.
would naturally have profited most
from such a decentralization, but
I resisted it for what seemed the
good of the institution.
“I am unaware of anything else,
but shall be glad to reply publicly
to anything else alleged.”
The Board of Regents acted on
the matter at its January meeting,
asking Bean Dyment to resign “for
the best interests of the Universi
ty,” Judge G. F. Skip worth, a mem
ber of the board, told an Emerald
reporter. Dean Dyment received
notice of the action about the mid
dle of March while he and his wife
were in Florence, Italy. He cabled
the board refusing to resign and
asked for a hearing of any rlurj^B
against him. He cnt short his tour
and came home. His request for
a hearing was not granted and at
(Continued on pmgt thnss)